Amazon Prime Day is over, and we've seen a lot of good MacBook deals. One we didn't anticipate to still be available is the $100 saving on a brand spanking new 15-inch MacBook Air — down to just $1,399!
Apple NEVER usually discounts its latest and greatest so soon, which made this offer completely blindside us. In fact, it was already on for this price at Amazon for a few days! But if you missed it when it went out of stock, fear not, B&H has your back.
Apple's 2023 15-inch MacBook Air pretty much the MacBook Air 13 with more screen real estate. It's larger than the 2022 13.6-inch MacBook Air M2, 2020 13.3-inch MacBook Air M1.
The base model MacBook Air 15 features a 15.3-inch (2880 x 1864) Liquid Retina display, M2 8-core CPU, 10-Core GPU, 16-core neural engine and 8GB of RAM. Rounding out its specs is a speedy 512GB SSD, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Force Touch trackpad.
In our MacBook Air 15 review, we gave it a solid rating of 4.5 out of 5-stars praising its ultra-slim chassis, beautiful Liquid Retina display and solid performance. The 15-inch MacBook Air's battery life endured nearly 15 hours of continuous web surfing over WiFi at 150-nits of brightness. This puts in the category of laptops with the longest lasting battery life.
Just about the only bone we have to pick with Apple about the MacBook Air 15 is the lack of ports.
In one test, we opened 80 Google Chrome running a mix of productivity apps, social media and videos. Apple's new 15-inch laptop had no issue juggling multiple tasks at once with no performance lag. In our lab, it scored 9,993 on Geekbench 6.1 overall performance test, which beats the 8,389 category average.
With a weight of 3.3 pounds and measuring 13.4 x 0.5 x 9.4-inches, the MacBook Air 15 is fairly portable. Now just under $1,400, the more spacious MacBook Air 15 is worth considering if you're in the market for a new laptop.
